Proverbs 21:19

Catholic Public Domain Version

It is better to live in a deserted land, than with a quarrelsome and emotional woman.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.

Proverbs 27:15

A roof leaking on a cold day, and an argumentative woman, are comparable.

Proverbs 30:23

by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.